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Texas Instruments Puts Out A New Open-Source Driver

Phoronix: Texas Instruments Puts Out A New Open-Source Driver

Earlier this week there was the release of a new open-source Linux driver by an engineer at Texas Instruments. The TI DMM-TILER is this new driver and its for the dynamic memory manager block on Texas Instruments hardware. "Its purpose is to organize video/image memory in a 2-dimensional fashion to limit memory bandwidth and facilitate 0 effort rotation and mirroring. The TILER driver facilitates allocating, freeing, as well as mapping 2D blocks (areas) in the TILER container(s). It also facilitates rotating and mirroring the allocated blocks or its rectangular subsections."..

It seems like there's a real communication issue between hardware manufacturers and kernel devs. They keep re-inventing the wheel, and I feel like no one really has the complete picture here. Someone really needs to do the research in order to make a really informed decision on kernel graphics APIs.